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Flaccid vs Puffed - What's the difference?

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Flaccid is a related term of puffed.


As adjectives the difference between flaccid and puffed

is that flaccid is flabby while puffed is inflated or swollen or puffed can be (informal) same as puffed out .

As a verb puffed is

(puff).

flaccid

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Flabby.
  • * 1955 , Joseph Heller, Catch-22 , chapter 13, page 140:
    • Colonel Korn, a stocky, dark, flaccid man with a shapeless paunch, sat completely relaxed on one of the benches in the front row, his hands clasped comfortably over the top of his bald and swarthy head.
  • Soft; floppy.
  • * 2006 , Simon LeVay, Sharon McBride Valente, Human Sexuality , page 93:
    • They first measured along the top surface of the flaccid penis, [...]
  • Lacking energy or vigor.
  • *

    • Antonyms

    * erect * firm

    puffed

    English

    Etymology 1

    from puff

    Verb

    (head)
  • (puff)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • inflated or swollen
  • consisting of a puff
  • (of cereals) expanded by the use of steam

    • Etymology 2

    Shortened from puffed out .

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (informal) Same as puffed out .